Agonized-Statism
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« on: January 23, 2022, 02:29:20 AM » |
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A lot of reasons. There was generational turnover, with the genre seen by a lot of boomers as old and worn out and the Wild West itself increasingly removed from cultural memory (those who experienced the frontier were dying off, and the kids and grandkids who grew up on their stories were getting old too). The West was the forefront of the US population boom, no longer an exotic locale, and space had become the new, more exciting frontier to a society enamored with science and progress. The romanticization of the frontier, and the ugliness and genocide that happened there, was confronted by the counterculture. It was harder to film Westerns with so many planes in the sky, and superheroes had finally come back to comics in a big way.
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